122 THE SHEEP AND WOOL INDUSTRY 



making them too small. The following sorts of fleece wool will 

 be found suitable for the flocks I have mentioned : 



A. A. Lincoln or Leicester. Consisting of all the bright, long, free, and 



sound-stapled fleeces of 40*3 quality. 

 A. Lincoln. Similar wool to A.A. only heavier in condition, also a little coarser, 



quality 40*3 to 36*3. 

 Lincoln Fleece. Consisting of cotted and hairy fleeces of 40*3 and 36*3 quality. 



If the sheep have been on good grass country up till shearing 

 time, and the wool is very clean and light in condition, the classer 

 could make a super line in addition to those I have named, 

 consisting of all the very long, and finest free-stapled, bright, 

 light-conditioned fleeces. 



CLASSING BLACK WOOL. 



Black wool is usually bundled together in a bale on the sheen 

 stations. As there is seldom more than a bale or two, it is the 

 only thing the classer can do with it, though he should keep black 

 lambs' wool apart from the black fleece or pieces. 



In big establishments where they have considerable quantities 

 of black wool, it is classed out into its various qualities like the 

 white wools, though it is classed on colour as well. A classer 

 would class it into jets, as the jet-black fleeces are called ; also 

 brownish blacks, greys and mixed, or fleeces containing both 

 black and white wool. Black wool is very, of ten blended in with 

 other wools, and in some cases it is dyed to make it a uniform 

 shade. People of religious sects who do not wear dyed garments 

 have their dark materials made up from black wools in their natural 

 colour. 



PIECES, LOCKS, BELLIES, ETC. 



All the pieces which have been skirted off the fleeces by the 

 wool-roller are packed up and taken to another table where they 

 are sorted by the piece-pickers. The reason for sorting is to 

 remove all the stained wool from the britch skirts, and to make a 

 line of the best and bulkiest pieces, calling them A.A. pieces, the 



